- Nov 07, 2020
Age Quotes
On the ages we pass through.
This collection moves from a childhood memory shaped by early pressure over appearance to a university course named for an 18th-century literary period, showing how differently 'age' can be used. For life-stage reflections, browse Life.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the age of 8, I was running media campaigns on global issues back home in Australia. I was ever so slightly precocious. I would meet with senior Australian government officials, including the prime minister and foreign minister, proposing various solutions to third-world debt and malnutrition.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cycling is an endurance sport. You lose your fast-twitch ability as you age, but your endurance peaks when you hit 30. I don't think I really started feeling my age until around 40.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the reasons I'm so competitive - I mean, I'm not winning much anymore - at my age was because I always worked hard and because we have a level playing field. We don't have motorbikes in the peloton anymore.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spent as much as 30 grand on a watch but it's not about flaunting my wealth. I don't have many extravagances but watches are my biggest one. I must have 30 of them now. I've been collecting since the age of nine, when I won a black TAG in a karting event.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bitcoin may herald the dawning of a new age in currency. It holds superior traits as a form of 'good money.' As a tangible form of asset (its core tangibility being its mathematical basis), it could become an incredibly important building block for the 21st century's global economy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy, crazy, crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age,' which is kind of what I did.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, from a really early age, I just wanted to be an actress. And I ended up doing comedy because it was the thing that kind of, like, came out of my nature the most easily. But, I've always wanted to do as many different kinds of performances - whatever I could.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chinese people of my parents' generation who lived through the Cultural Revolution knew so much of death at such a young age, and the psychic toll those experiences left was immense. I knew the stories of the Cultural Revolution before knowing what the Cultural Revolution was.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that our language, culture, age, fortune, property, and our fame is all a facade. In the end, we're all the same.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love fashion, but I don't come from a background of loving clothes, and I remember feeling badly dressed from a young age.
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- Nov 07, 2020